Well I was at most home games last season, crowd seemed about 110,000 short to me!Argyle’s twitter account has over 118,000 followers and is the quickest way for the club to connect with fans.
Twitter doesn’t give an accurate reflection of every fans view but is there actually a better way of voting for this? If the polls were on the official site, it would still be linked to on Twitter.
Its 100% a flawed way to run a poll but I’m not sure there is a way that it could be run any better.
Argyle’s twitter account has over 118,000 followers and is the quickest way for the club to connect with fans.
Twitter doesn’t give an accurate reflection of every fans view but is there actually a better way of voting for this? If the polls were on the official site, it would still be linked to on Twitter.
Its 100% a flawed way to run a poll but I’m not sure there is a way that it could be run any better.
PASOTI and the Argyle Fans Trust should be asking for the club to put a vote on their main website. The comments listed before are younger supporters than myself. Best goalkeeper Dave MacLaren best RH and local boy Johnny Williams. We can do much better than chat all day long
This is what I think the Twitter vote will end up as:
Larrieu
Connolly
Bradley
Coughlan
Sawyer
Halmosi
Friio
Nalis or Buzsaky
Carey
Tynan
Evans or Mariner
Larrieu wasn't better than SuperLuke though.
Totally agree. Though I’m not even sure Tynan would get in, if Connolly is getting twice the votes of Nisbet. I genuinely think Reuben Reid would get more votes on Twitter.
I can’t remember what the choices would be if it’s from the BGL Greatest Pilgrims poll, would Carey have been part of that if he was a current player?
There are players from the past who richly deserve their place as Argyle legends, all time greats, and some of these none of us have seen play. I'm not sure that a Twitter poll can do justice to the historical stature of these players due to the demographic of Twitter users. Those of us who are older probably have a more balanced viewpoint but because we are less likely to be Twitter users our opinions are being lost. Polls are not always the most sensible way to decide things, particularly when there is such an obvious bias. In these days of data analysis, would it be more sensible to use a statistical approach to decide?
I agree with others who think that the use of Twitter will significantly skew the results in favour of the younger age cohorts.
The Club must know the age profile of the fanbase fairly accurately, so the solution is simple. Request the age of the respondent and then weight the results by the inverse of the sampling fraction - So, if under 30's make up a third of the fanbase, but represent two thirds of the respondents then each of their results should be multiplied by 0.5. Conversely, if over 60's make up a third of the fanbase, but only one sixth of the respondents, then each of their votes should be doubled.
For what its worth, my late father (and many very elderly fans still alive) would probably have voted for Bill Shortt, as the best keeper, whereas I would vote for Dave MacLaren, and one or two of my younger relatives would go for Romain Larrieu.
The Club should think again on this one because the use of Twitter will not be representative and, therefore, not fair.
And also Carey was best in League 2I agree, I’m not sure it should be this democratic. And certainly not on Twitter. A panel of Argyle experts of all ages would have been good, maybe Sparksy and a few others.
And I’m not even sure having favourite players and seeing them in the flesh is even that relevant. E.g. Graham Carey is my favourite Argyle player, for various personal reasons. But I don’t think he should be in an all-time XI because I know that previous players achieved more before my time.
Will shut up now
Anyone know if the club is receiving anything from Twitter? I complained to the club saying I don’t have Twitter and that this was hardly inclusive and got back a link to Twitter from the club saying it was an easy process. Look forward to seeing all those murals of league two and maybe league one players. I doubt if anyone under 40 has even heard of the likes of Dave Provan. Brian Bason or even Norman Piper